A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.
Micah 6:11 - English Standard Version 2016 Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights? Matoleo zaidiKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Can I be pure [Myself, and acquit the man] with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights? [I Thess. 4:6.] American Standard Version (1901) Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights? Common English Bible Can I approve wicked scales and a bag of false weights Catholic Public Domain Version Shall I justify unfaithful balances, and the deceitful weighing of a small bag? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Shall I justify wicked balances, and the deceitful weights of the bag? |
A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.
A just balance and scales are the Lord’s; all the weights in the bag are his work.
Unequal weights and unequal measures are both alike an abomination to the Lord.
You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
saying, “When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great and deal deceitfully with false balances,
And he said, “This is Wickedness.” And he thrust her back into the basket, and thrust down the leaden weight on its opening.